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Jim Davila<\/a> noticed before I did that\u00a0 Charles H\u00e4berl<\/span>\u2018s social media campaign to get part of Pluto named after Krun \u2013 the\u00a0Mandaean lord of the underworld \u2013 was successful<\/a>. The designation of one of Pluto\u2019s recently-revealed land features with the name Krun marks the first time that a celestial body has been given a Mandaean name by anyone other than the Mandaeans themselves.<\/p>\n

Although Wikipedia<\/a> is not always reliable, on this matter it presumably is, given that the Krun<\/a> page has been edited by Charles himself. And so click through<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

$\"Krun\"$ <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"